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Sidney Nagel in front of a chalkboard

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Sidney Nagel, Ph.D.

Director, Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem

Affiliations
  • Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in Physics, University of Chicago

Projects

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Cracking the Glass Problem

Simons Collaboration

Featuring Sidney Nagel

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New Simons Collaboration: Cracking the Glass Problem

Events

Mathematics & Physical Sciences

Directed Aging and Nature’s Greedy Algorithms

Lecture

March 6, 2019

5–6:15 p.m. ET

Speaker

Sidney Nagel

Sidney Nagel in front of a chalkboard

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